“I have a message for your daughter,” said Cale. "I am bound to her with cables that not even God can break. One day, if there is a soft breeze on her cheek, it may be my breath; one night, if the cool wind plays with her hair, it may be my shadow passing by." ...
Vipond turned to Captain Albin and said quietly, “You know, Albin, the older I get the more I believe that if love is to be judged by most of its visible effects, it looks more like hatred than friendship.”
— Paul Hoffman, The Left Hand of God













